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Hull Technician Fireman Zachary Cherry, from Zephyrhills, Florida, welds in the pipe shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys
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our months into her deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) continues to patrol the Arabian Gulf, providing support for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), but TR’s high operational tempo leaves little time or opportunity to pull in to port and receive supplies. With help from the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8), TR uses a different method to receive supplies for the more than 5,000 Sailors and Marines that make up her crew and embarked air wing. That method is called a replenishment-at-sea (RAS). “The RAS allows us to stay out to sea indefinitely,” said Cmdr. Christian Mahler, TR’s supply officer. “We pull into port to recharge our own batteries, but as long as we have the Arctic, the ship doesn’t need to pull in to restock.” A sort of mobile warehouse, Arctic regularly pulls alongside TR to provide supplies and fuel needed to support mission requirements. Transferring goods from the Arctic involves hundreds of Sailors and Marines on TR working long hours throughout the day and into the night to store hundreds of pallets of food, supplies and mail. During an average RAS, TR takes on close to 500 pallets of supplies and receives 150,000 gallons of fuel. Throughout this process, cargo fills the ship’s hangar bays and flight deck while at least 500 Sailors and Marines transport this cargo to its final location. Although every person involved in the RAS has an important role in ensuring its success, TR’s Deck and Supply departments are vital assets in making sure everything goes according to plan from start to finish. Sailors assigned to Deck department heave the lines that connect TR with Arctic. They also connect the fuel transfer hoses, communicate with Arctic via radio and control the helm while sailing alongside Arctic. “Once we pull up [to Arctic], we maintain as steady a course as possible,” said Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Haley Sahr, a master helmsman aboard TR. “Helmsmen drive by half-degree increments, and it’s important to maintain that course when we’re alongside another ship.” Deck department Sailors also connect the ship’s with a phone-and-distance line to mark the distance between the ships, sometimes less than 300 feet, to ensure the ships maintain a close yet safe distance form one another. “Everyone on the fueling stations from the rig captains to the line handlers are there to make sure everything goes the way it’s supposed to and it’s done safely,” said Sahr. On the opposite end of the flight deck, Sailors assigned to Supply department take on supplies from the air in a vertical replenishment (VERTREP). During the VERTREP, Sailors guide helicopters from Arctic’s embarked Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22 onto the flight deck to deliver pallets of cargo. Once they are delivered, teams of Sailors transport the cargo to the hangar bay to be sorted. On RAS days, the hangar bay aboard TR becomes a bustling center of activity. Sailors operate forklifts and elevators to move boxes to break down and sort the growing wall of supplies and mail quickly and safely. “[Supply] starts everything from the top and we work our way
down,” said Chief Logistics Specialist Alaric Best. “Our Sailors catch everything from the flight deck and transport it down. We work - Cmdr. Christian Mahler the RAS from start to finish.” RAS days usually start before dawn, and the task of storing all of the day’s supplies goes on until late at night. At the end of the day, TR is stocked up with everything the crew needs to keep the ship mission ready, and Sailors and Marines often receive their favorite cargo: mail. “RAS days are my favorite,” said Mahler. “We look forward to replenishing all of our stores so we can take better care of our Sailors. I definitely love opening up the mail bags … and seeing all the packages coming in for our Sailors. It’s like Christmas.”
“We look forward to replenishing all of our stores so we can take better care of our Sailors.
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Cincinnati’s College Police Under Review Rival Insurgents Surprise Syrians Supported by U.S.
CINCINNATI — Six years ago, with crime creeping upward in the tree-lined, if slightly downtrodden, neighborhoods encircling the University of Cincinnati campus, the city and the university quietly signed an agreement giving the 72-member campus police force authority to patrol nearby residential streets. The goal was “increased visibility,” university officials say, and the roughly 10,000 students who live in apartments and rowhouses off campus noticed a difference. Campus officers walked them home late at night or gave them rides. “I feel like crime has gotten pushed out,” said one senior, Jen Steiner, 21. But the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist, Samuel DuBose, by a white campus police officer who now faces murder charges is forcing officials to reconsider a policy in which the Cincinnati Police Department empowered a less racially diverse — and, critics say, inadequately trained — force to patrol an area far more complex than its campus home base.
The Hamilton County prosecutor has called for the campus force to be disbanded; the university has suspended neighborhood patrols and is initiating a “top to bottom” review. Mayor John Cranley said he was concerned about the racial makeup and training of the campus force, and in an interview Friday, Chief Jeffrey Blackwell of the Cincinnati police called for the agreement, signed by one of his predecessors, to be scrapped. “If we’re going to have one, it needs to be written in such a manner that is very restrictive in what it allows U.C. police to do inside the confines of a large city,” Blackwell said, adding, “I don’t believe their officers have the skill set to police Cincinnati with the same philosophy of fairness and cultural competency that my officers display.” Cincinnati has learned tough lessons since 2001, when it erupted into riots over the use of deadly force by the police against blacks. The next year, the city entered into a federal consent decree that, many here say, spawned a new
era in policing, including improvements in training. But the decree, known as the “collaborative agreement,” did not cover the campus force. “This is an island of throwback policing in the middle of a city that actually does policing correctly,” said Al Gerhardstein, a civil rights lawyer who brought the class-action case that led to the consent decree. University officials counter that they are already retraining officers on matters like racial profiling, and that their police officers work closely with their city counterparts. Professor Robin Engel, who directs the university’s Institute of Crime Science and advises both city and campus police officers, says the university is developing an “early warning system” to flag officers who might pose problems. “High visibility was always our goal to reduce crime,” she said, “but it’s possible that some officers took that further than we may have originally intended.” JOHN MURA and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Clinton Assails Bush, in Possible Trailer for ’16 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jeb Bush and his aides had envisioned a big, inclusive, high-minded speech about race on Friday in his home state of Florida, a chance to bring his message of colorblind opportunity to a prestigious group of African-American leaders. In a rare gesture of bipartisanship, Bush even planned to warmly quote President Obama, usually the subject of his derision. Then Hillary Rodham Clinton stomped all over those plans. In a biting surprise attack, delivered as Bush, the former Florida governor, waited backstage here at the annual convention of the National Urban League, Clinton portrayed him as a hypocrite who had set back the cause of black Americans. It was an unexpected moment of political theater that seemed to presage what could be a bitter general-election rivalry be-
tween two of the biggest names in American politics. Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president, latched onto Bush’s campaign slogan and the name of his “super PAC” — “Right to Rise,” his shorthand for a conservative agenda of self-reliance and hope — and turned it into a verbal spear. “People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care,” Clinton said to applause from conventiongoers, a dig at Bush’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act. “They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on,” she said, a jab at his opposition to raising the federal minimum wage. “They can’t rise if their governor makes it harder for them to get a college education,” she said, a critique of Bush’s decision as governor to eliminate affirmative action in college admissions. When Bush reached the lec-
tern, declaring, “I believe in the right to rise in this country,” the scent of political gunpowder was still in the air. The assault on her Republican rival was all the more striking because the Bush and Clinton families make a point of highlighting their friendly ties: Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush appear on this week’s cover of Time magazine. Bush appeared unprepared to respond, thanking Clinton for joining him at the event but otherwise leaving her criticism unanswered in his own speech. Bush’s aides, however, could barely hide their disgust over Clinton’s remarks, which they spoke of, bitterly, as uncivil and uncalled-for. On Twitter, Tim Miller, Bush’s communications director, called it a “Clintonesque move to pass over chance to unite in favor of a false cheap shot.” MICHAEL BARBARO
BAGHDAD — A Syrian insurgent group at the heart of the Pentagon’s effort to fight the Islamic State came under intense attack on Friday from a different hard-line Islamist faction, a serious blow to the Obama administration’s plans to create a reliable military force inside Syria. The American-led coalition responded with airstrikes to help the American-aligned unit, known as Division 30, in fighting off the assault, according to an American military spokesman and combatants on both sides. The strikes were the first known use of coalition air power in direct battlefield support of fighters in Syria who were trained by the Pentagon. The attack on Friday was mounted by the Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda. It came a day after the Nusra Front captured two leaders and at least six fighters of Division 30, which supplied the first trainees to graduate from the Pentagon’s anti-Islamic State training program. In Washington, several current and former senior administration officials acknowledged that the attack and the abductions by the Nusra Front took American officials by surprise and amounted to a significant intelligence failure. While U.S. military trainers had gone to great lengths to protect the trainees from attacks by Islamic State or Syrian Army forces, they did not anticipate an assault from the Nusra Front. In fact, officials said on Friday, they expected the Nusra Front to welcome Division 30 as an ally. A senior Defense Department official acknowledged that the threat to the trainees and their Syrian recruiters had been misjudged. The Defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described what he called “silver linings” to the attack on Friday: that the trainees had fought effectively in the battle, and that coalition warplanes responded quickly. ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT
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U.S. to Retaliate Against China Over Data Theft The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for the theft of personal information of more than 20 million Americans from the databases of the Office of Personnel Management, but still is struggling to decide what it can do without prompting an escalating cyberconflict. The decision came after the administration concluded that the hacking attack was so vast in scope and ambition that the usual practices for dealing with traditional espionage cases did not apply. But in a series of classified meetings, officials have struggled to choose among options that range from largely symbolic responses — for example, diplomatic protests or the ouster of known Chinese agents in the United States — to more significant actions that some officials fear could lead to an escalation of the hacking conflict between the two countries. That does not mean a response will happen anytime soon — or be obvious when it does. The White House could determine that the downsides of any meaningful, yet proportionate, retaliation outweigh the benefits, or will lead to retaliation on American firms or individuals doing work in China. Obama, clearly seeking leverage, has asked his staff to come up with a more creative set of responses. In public, Obama has said almost nothing, and officials are under strict instructions to avoid naming China as the source of the attack. While James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said last month that “you have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did,” he avoided repeating that accusation when pressed again in public last week. But over recent days, both Clapper and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the military’s Cyber Command, have hinted at the internal debate. Clapper predicted that the number and sophistication of hacking aimed at the United States will worsen “until such time as we create both the substance and psychology of deterrents.” DAVID E. SANGER
Jewish Arsonist Suspected in West Bank Attack DUMA, West Bank — Residents of this Palestinian hamlet still awake on a hot summer night heard the screams and rushed to the Dawabsheh home. Outside, Saad, 32, lay writhing on the ground. Nearby, his wife Riham, 27, was still on fire. Their 4-yearold son Ahmad could be heard crying inside the burning house, and his brother, 18-month-old Ali, was already dead. Witnesses and officials attributed the attack on Friday to Jewish extremists because of Hebrew graffiti sprayed nearby. “Revenge!” was written on one wall, next to a Star of David. Two witnesses said they saw two masked men outside the house watching as the family burned. “The hardest thing for me, was that there were two burning people on the ground, and two people were just standing over them,” said a neighbor, Ibrahim Dawabsheh, who like many in this Palestinian village shared a common last name. Israeli and Palestinian politicians branded the firebombing in this hilltop village of 3,000 as terrorism, the latest incident in a summer marked by repeated vi-
Mourners carry the body of 18-monthold Ali Dawabsheh, who died when his family house was set on fire in the West Bank. ABED OMAR QUSINI/REUTERS
olence. Dozens of residents of the village gathered around the family’s charred home, where a relative had tossed a baby bottle still sloshing with milk atop a pile of blackened furniture and burned blankets. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, called the arson attack a “brutal assassination” and said it was “a direct consequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli government to settler terrorism.” President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said that he would ask the International Criminal Court to investigate the attack as a war crime, local
news sites reported. Israeli politicians across the spectrum quickly condemned the arson as “a terror attack,” a term usually reserved for Palestinian violence against Jews. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Ahmad and Riham Dawabsheh in the hospital Friday afternoon where they were in critical condition. “We are shocked by it, we condemn it fully, the entire Israeli government and all the citizens of Israel. We decry it as a terrorist crime,” Netanyahu said afterward. “We will use all the tools at our disposal to bring them to justice and to see justice served to them.” DIAA HADID and JODI RUDOREN
In Brief Hunter’s Extradition Sought Zimbabwe’s environment minister called Friday for the extradition of the American dentist who killed Cecil, a 13-year-old lion. The minister, Oppah Muchinguri, said the dentist, Dr. Walter J. Palmer, a hunter from Minnesota, had broken Zimbabwe’s laws. At a news conference in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, Muchinguri said that she understood the process was underway to have Palmer extradited from the United States and that the “foreign poacher” needed to be held accountable for his actions. (NYT)
Photos Could Link Debris to Jet Two senior Australian officials expressed increasing confidence on Friday that debris found on a French island this week came from the Malaysian jet that disappeared last year with 239 people aboard, though they cautioned that confirmation would not come from Australia. The debris found on Wednesday on the island of Réunion off the coast of Madagascar, a piece of a wing, was shipped on Friday to France for analysis. But the Australian officials said photographic evidence alone might be enough to establish that it came from the Boeing 777 flying as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished on March 8, 2014, during a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. “It may be possible to make an identification without further physical identifica-
tion, but that will be a matter for the French and the Malaysian authorities,” Warren Truss, Australia’s deputy prime minister, said on Friday. (NYT)
Three Executives Face Charges In the first criminal prosecutions of officials connected to the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011, the Japanese authorities said Friday that they would move forward with cases against three former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the owner of the plant where reactors melted down after a tsunami. Citizens’ groups have been pursuing charges against dozens of officials at Tokyo Electric Power, known as Tepco, and the government. The three executives who face indictment are Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, the chairman of Tepco at the time of the accident, and two former heads of the utility’s nuclear division. (NYT)
Ebola Drug Shows Promise An experimental Ebola vaccine being tested in the West African nation of Guinea during the outbreak of the viral disease has shown promising initial results, according to a report on the clinical trial that was published on Friday. The report, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, indicated that the vaccine “might be highly efficacious and safe in preventing Ebola virus disease.” (NYT)
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Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Predicted Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also The change diapers. Upshot But as they enter that more responsibility-filled stage of life, something changes: Their roles often become much more traditional. Millennial men — ages 18 to early 30s — have significantly more egalitarian attitudes about family, career and gender roles inside marriage than generations before them, according to a new wave of research from social scientists. Yet they struggle to achieve their goals once they start families. Some researchers think that’s because workplace policies have not caught up to changing expectations at home. “The majority of young men and women say they would ideally like to equally share earning and caregiving with their spouse,” said Sarah Thébaud, a sociologist at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. “But it’s pretty clear that we don’t have the kinds of policies and flexible work options that really facilitate egalitarian relationships.” Surveys of young people that compare those who are childless with those who are parents show a striking difference. Millennial men have the least traditional notions about gender roles of any generation, according to a new analysis from the Families and Work Institute. Only 35 percent of employed millennial men without children said they thought men should be breadwinners and women should be caregivers. Yet those who had children had different attitudes. Of millennial men who were already fathers, 53 percent said it was better for mothers and fathers to take on traditional roles. Workplace policies seem to play a crucial role. Thébaud was the co-author of a study, published in February in the American Sociological Review, that was the first
major examination of the effect workplace policies have on the relationship preferences of young men and women. It found that men and women ages 18 to 32 have egalitarian attitudes about gender roles. But when faced with a lack of family-friendly policies, most fell back on traditional roles. Women, Thébaud noted, are more likely to use benefits like paid leave or flexible schedules in part because they are expected to be caregivers, while men are stigmatized for using them. In the absence of those policies, women cut back on work. Men work more. “With millennial men and women too, life hasn’t hit the fan, so we’re still seeing more idealized expectations,” said Pamela Stone, a sociologist at Hunter College. “It’s not that they’ve thrown over their ideals, it’s just enacting those are much harder given the workplace and cultural structures they’re encountering.” CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Bid Is New for Trump; Racially Charged Talk Is Not The newspaper advertisement warned in dire terms that violent criminals were coming to town. “Are these the new neighbors we want?” the paid message asked. “The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.” The ad, part of an advocacy campaign meant to stop a casino from being built in New York’s Catskill region, drew an indignant response from the tribe, which called it a naked appeal to racism. The incendiary ads, which ran in upstate newspapers in February 2000, were the work of the New York Institute for Law and Society, an opaque interest group that
described itself as opposed to casino gambling. It was only later that the man who bankrolled the ads identified himself: Donald J. Trump. Long before Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, roiling the 2016 election with his pugnacious style and speeches in which he has branded many undocumented immigrants as rapists and murderers, he had proved himself in New York as an expert political provocateur with an instinct for racially charged rhetoric. To communities that have clashed with Trump in the past, his current strategy is entirely
familiar. The slash-and-burn offensive against casino gambling in New York was a revealing foray into local politics, but it was only one of several episodes that seem to foreshadow the tone of his presidential campaign. Trump acknowledged that his style can be offensive to some, but he defended it as essential for communicating his message. Trump said it was “not my intention” to speak in racially provocative terms, but expressed little interest in softening his language. “It’s very time-consuming to be politically correct,” he said, “and I don’t like wasting a lot of time.” ALEXANDER BURNS
Federal Report Finds Racial Bias in a Missouri Court The Justice Department said Friday that the juvenile justice system in St. Louis County, Mo., treats black youths far more harshly than whites, and deprives all low-income youths accused of crimes — no matter what race — of their basic constitutional rights. Youths from poorer families who are accused of crimes get little or no chance to challenge their detention, dispute the charges against them, or receive meaning-
ful help from lawyers, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division reported after a 20-month investigation. A fundamental problem is that there is just one overwhelmed public defender for juveniles, who handled 394 cases in 2014. “What immediately they could do, by way of a start, is they could add public defenders,” Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, said in a conference call. The county is the same region
that drew international scrutiny for its law enforcement practices after a police officer in the city of Ferguson fatally shot Michael Brown, 18, last year. Gupta said department lawyers met Thursday with county and state officials to share its findings, and she hopes to reach an agreement on changes. If that fails, she said, “we certainly have the ability to litigate.” RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
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In Brief Suspect Indicates He Would Plead Guilty At a brief but emotional hearing in federal court in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Dylann Roof indicated that he wanted to plead guilty to federal charges related to the killing in June of nine members of a storied African-American church. But his lawyer, David Bruck, told the court that he could not advise Roof on how to plead without knowing whether prosecutors planned to pursue the death penalty against him. Roof, 21, stood as Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant read through 33 federal charges that included hate crimes resulting in death, weapons charges and obstructing the practice of religion. Roof could face the death penalty in 18 of the 33 charges against him for the June 17 shooting rampage at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Marchant directed a plea of not guilty. (NYT)
Advocates Decry Trying Teen as Adult A 15-year-old boy charged as an adult with raping and killing his 8-year-old neighbor in Santa Cruz, Calif., is too young to understand what he is accused of doing, youth advocacy groups said Friday. They say the district attorney should have asked a judge whether suspect Adrian Jerry Gonzalez is fit to stand trial as an adult and possibly subjected to more severe penalties than he would as a juvenile. “The prosecutor made the decision without knowing much about the motive,” said Sue Burrell, an attorney with the Youth Law Center based in San Francisco. Police say Gonzalez lured Madyson Middleton to his family’s apartment then hid her body in a recycling bin. (AP)
Famed Studio Saved A storied recording studio on Nashville’s Music Row that was once slated to be demolished has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The designation of the RCA Victor Studios Building, better known as RCA Studio A, was announced by the National Park Service on Friday. The studio was developed by country music legend Chet Atkins in 1964, and the likes of Elvis Presley and Waylon Jennings have recorded music there. (AP)
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Trade Deal Negotiation in Pacific Stumbles merce. President Obama’s trade push had been buoyed by Congress’s narrow passage in June of “fast track” trade negotiating powers, and American negotiators had hoped other countries could come together once Congress had given up the right to amend any final agreement. In the end, a deal filled with 21st-century policies on Internet access, advanced pharmaceuticals, and clean energy trade foundered on issues that have bedeviled international trade for decades: access to dairy markets in Canada, sugar markets in the United States and rice markets in Japan. Australia, Chile and New Zealand also continue to resist the United States push to protect the intellectual property of major
pharmaceutical companies for as much as 12 years, shielding them from generic competition as they recoup the cost of developing next-generation “biologic” medicines. The trade ministers did have some successes. They reached agreement on broad environmental protections for some of the most sensitive, diverse and threatened ecosystems on Earth. But the failure to complete the deal means the next round of negotiations will push the United States ratification fight into 2016, a presidential election year. Most Republican candidates are likely to back it, but a final agreement would force the Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton to declare her position, which she has avoided. JONATHAN WEISMAN
Low Prices and Profits Curb Oil Industry’s Ambitions HOUSTON — The long decline in oil prices is hitting American oil companies where it hurts and forcing them to scale back some investments in their production that would otherwise drive future growth. Exxon Mobil and Chevron on Friday posted their worst quarterly results of the current decade as oil and natural gas prices continued to plunge. The results of the companies, and those of almost the entire oil patch this week, were disappointing but not all that surprising since the price of oil is now half what it was a year ago. With most benchmarks hovering around $50 a barrel at the height of the driving season, many analysts
say the price will go down further before it rises again. Oil prices are under pressure, driven by a glut of oil in the United States and on world markets because of resilient domestic production and increased production by Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states. The recent nuclear deal with Iran may eventually add as much as a million barrels a day to the global market of 94 million barrels, further dousing speculation that prices will rebound soon. The two American oil giants are better off than most of their smaller peers, who in recent days have been cutting their payrolls, writing down assets and in some cases reporting losses. The oil gi-
ants’ refinery businesses benefit from the grinding drop of commodity prices, but the strength of their global diversified businesses was not substantial enough to balance the reduced revenue of their exploration and production businesses. Exxon Mobil, the largest American oil company, reported a 52 percent drop in profit for the second quarter. Revenue dropped by a third, and the profits of its exploration and production businesses declined 74 percent, to $2 billion. Chevron’s net income fell severely in the second quarter to $571 million, from $5.67 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue fell to $40.4 billion. CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Microsoft Said to Invest a Substantial Amount in Uber Microsoft has agreed to invest in Uber, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as part of a funding round that values the ride-hailing company at around $51 billion. Microsoft has agreed to contribute a substantial amount of the financing, which totals about $1 billion, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details of the fund-raising are not public. “We filed to authorize this new funding more than two months ago,” an Uber spokeswoman
said in a statement. “The filing is available to the public. We aren’t commenting on additional speculation.” A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment. Microsoft’s participation was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal. This new round cements Uber’s place as one of the most richly valued private companies ever. It is also the latest fund-raising spree undertaken by Uber, which has added billions of dollars to its surging war chest. Uber has earmarked significant mon-
ey for expansion into new markets like China, India and greater Southeast Asia. Microsoft’s participation is a new development and may indicate a growing partnership between Uber and the software giant, which is based in Redmond, Wash. In May, a person familiar with the matter said this particular round of fund-raising was intended to form strategic alliances with other companies while simultaneously bolstering Uber’s coffers. MIKE ISAAC and NICK WINGFIELD
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LAHAINA, Hawaii — Trade negotiators from the United States and 11 other Pacific nations were headed toward failure Friday, with difficult talks on the largest regional trade agreement ever breaking down over protections for pharmaceutical companies and access to agriculture markets on both sides of the Pacific. Negotiators will return to their home countries to obtain high-level signoffs for a small number of final sticking points on the agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with bilateral talks reconvening soon. But the breakdown is a setback for the Obama administration, which had promoted the talks here as the final round ahead of an accord that would bind 40 percent of the world’s economy under a new set of rules for com-
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Perdue Sharply Curtails Its Use of Antibiotics SALISBURY, Md. — The floors are spotless in Hatchery 3 on the sprawling Perdue compound here. Doors have been rehung to open out, and temperature control and ventilation systems have been upgraded, all to minimize the potential for airborne contamination. The 1.5 million eggs that arrive here each week to begin the process of becoming the company’s chicken supply are also clean, with none of the traces of feces or feathers that were common in the past. They will move into chambers that are disinfected daily with hydrogen peroxide during the 21-day incubation-and-hatching cycle, a more rigorous program. No human hand will touch the eggs during those three weeks. It took Perdue roughly a decade to perfect the raising of chickens without antibiotics of any kind, and now it has reached a tipping point: More than half of the chicken it sells can be labeled “no antibiotics ever,” a first for a major poultry company. Competitors like Tyson and Foster Farms are moving to eliminate the use of antibiotics important to humans from their chicken operations as customers like McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A
More than half of the chicken Perdue sells can be labeled “no antibiotics ever,” a first for a major poultry company.
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demand it. They continue, however, to use ionophores, antibiotics not used in human medicine — a point Perdue is trying to hammer home in new ads featuring Jim Perdue, the chief executive and the grandson of Perdue’s founder. “Some of my competitors plan to reduce their use of antibiotics over the next few years — but what are you having for dinner tonight?” Perdue asks in one. A spokesman for Tyson said the company used antibiotics as little as possible. “We’re working with our research partners on antibiotic alternatives, however, until they’re available we currently plan to continue using ionophores,” the spokesman, Gary Mickelson, said. Antibiotics have long been
used in the diets of farm animals to promote growth, control illness and reduce costs. But for several years, public health officials have expressed concern that consumption of meat raised with antibiotics — particularly those used in human medicine — could contribute to antibiotic resistance. There is scant scientific evidence to suggest that ionophores threaten human health, said Jonathan Kaplan, director of the food and agriculture program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Nonetheless, Kaplan said, Perdue is raising the bar for the poultry industry. “Here is Perdue taking what has traditionally been a niche product and making it mainstream,” he said. “That’s a milestone in this industry.” STEPHANIE STROM
Artists Take On Music Industry, Calling for Change Musicians are known for speaking out on issues like human rights, politics and the environment. They are less known for speaking out about how the music business itself should operate. That may be changing. When Taylor Swift publicly rebuked Apple in June over royalty payments, the company reversed its position and Swift’s move was celebrated throughout the music world as a victory. But it was only the most prominent example of a growing trend of industry-focused activism undertaken by a range of artists. “We’re at a turning point,” said the singer David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, who has been vocal on the economics behind digital music. “Musicians, their managers and many others are frustrated. The black box of hidden transactions in the music business, while maybe not illegal, is a recipe for chicanery.” The activism has taken differ-
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Zoë Keating, a cellist, began sharing detailed royalty statements from Spotify. ent shapes. Jay Z, for example, paid $56 million for the subscription streaming service Tidal, though his efforts to market it as an artist-friendly alternative have been criticized as clumsy. Prince, Neil Young and Swift have withdrawn their music from some streaming outlets, and various musicians have called for greater transparency in how the music
industry operates. The shift toward streaming in recent years has prompted many musicians to investigate the changes in the business and comment online. Among them are independents like David Lowery of the band Cracker and Zoë Keating, a cellist who has documented her online royalties. Over the last few weeks, dozens of acts took to social media to support a bill that would require radio stations to pay royalties to performers. The political chances are unclear for the Fair Play bill, whose other provisions include paying royalties to artists for recordings made before 1972, which are not covered by federal copyright. Similar efforts have failed in the past, and the National Association of Broadcasters says that 203 members of the House and 19 senators have signed a nonbinding resolution opposing it. BEN SISARIO
MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS % Volume Stock (Ticker) Close Chg chg (100) 10 MOST ACTIVE Bankof (BAC) Micron (MU) Susque (SUSQ) Facebo (FB) Apple (AAPL) SunEdi (SUNE) JDSU (JDSU) FordMo (F) Micros (MSFT) AT&T (T)
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10.20 19.30 26.74 6.51 13.72 16.56 16.22 92.70 28.73 71.54
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8.43 8.87 6.94 9.91 32.66 21.18 10.99 40.65 46.77 19.80
◊3.33 ◊2.51 ◊1.74 ◊2.09 ◊6.24 ◊3.58 ◊1.79 ◊6.57 ◊7.48 ◊3.15
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: LinkedIn Corp., down $23.89 to $203.26. The professional networking service’s results topped expectations but it’s been caught up in the malaise hitting social-networking stocks. Hanesbrands Inc., down $3.11 to $31.03. The underwear and sock maker’s second-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations. Avalon Holdings Ltd., up $3.86 to $28.73. The commercial jet aircraft company is considering two unsolicited buyout offers, valuing the stock at $30 and $31 per share. Expedia Inc., up $13.83 to $121.44. The online travel company reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and announced a larger dividend as bookings grow. Moneygram International Inc., up $2.32 to $10.20. The money transfer company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and named a W. Alexander Holmes its new chief executive officer. Columbia Sportswear Co., up $8.90 to $71.54. The maker of outdoor gear reported a loss in its second-quarter, but its results beat Wall Street forecasts. (AP)
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‘Mission: Impossible’: Your Next Stunt, Should You Choose to Accept It Watching Tom Cruise hurtle through the together, turning the scene into the emblemlatest “Mission: Impossible,” taking one blow atic “Mission: Impossible” showstopper. It’s after another, you can’t help worrying that he the kind of pure cine-spectacle that jolts you won’t be able to keep this action stuff up. It before sweeping you up. There’s never been a looks so hard! But here he is, the 53-year-old scene in the series as memorable as that one, Tom Terrific, holding onto a plane as it takes and it set a high bar both for directors who followed in De Palma’s off, defying sense and gravwake and for Cruise’s ity, and making you wonder physical performance, (not for the first time) if he which in the later inwould actually die for our stallments has largely pleasure. By the time he’s involved progressiveflailing underwater withly scarier stunts. out an oxygen tank, strugThe writer and digling against violent surges rector of the latest as breath and time run out, movie — its goofy you can almost feel the life full title is “Mission: leaving his body. CHIABELLA JAMES/PARAMOUNT PICTURES Impossible — Rogue The first “Mission: ImNation” — is Christopossible” movie, a spinoff Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa is a pher McQuarrie. Mcfrom the 1960s television newcomer to the “Mission” series. Quarrie, who made his show, was released 19 years ago and was, though it’s almost hard to believe name with his rebuslike script for “The Usual it now, something of an auteurist event, having Suspects,” tends to work the more lugubrious been directed by Brian De Palma. As a star-au- end of the entertainment spectrum, so it’s a teur, Cruise has always been the most import- nice surprise that “Rogue Nation” isn’t just anant feature and effect of the series, although other clenched-jaw blowout. Sleek and bloated, specific and generic, it’s telling that De Palma oversaw the set-piece that gave the movies their foundational image: “Rogue Nation” is pretty much like most of the Cruise’s operative, Ethan Hunt, hovering like “Impossible” movies in that it’s an immense a spider (or a puppet) above a luminous white machine that McQuarrie, after tinkering and oiling, has cranked up again and set humming floor while suspended by a very thin rope. As the clock tick-tocks, and Ethan strug- with twists and turns, global trotting and gadgles to keep his cool — a single drop of sweat gets, a crack supporting cast and a hard-worksplashed on the floor would blow the opera- ing star. Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames and Sition — the visual gloss and high-tech gobble- mon Pegg (with his valuable comic timing) are dygook, Cruise’s graceful athleticism and De all back, joined by series newcomer Rebecca Palma’s New Hollywood suspense chops flow Ferguson. She plays a super-vixen who holds
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Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. her own both on the ground and in midair. All too often, Cruise’s insistence on doing frightening stunts in the “Mission: Impossible” series has become its most distinguishing quality. In this movie, though, when he goes airborne like a barnstormer, the scene’s self-conscious sense of the absurd suggests he’s trying to let his inner Harold Lloyd out to play. That helps speed up “Rogue Nation,” which slows down when the plot tangles or some ceremonial manly peacocking ensues. The mood grows sinister with the excellent Sean Harris as the regulation evil genius and almost frisky with Alec Baldwin as an intelligence blowhard. Pegg’s second-banana flair is especially crucial here because it helps show that Cruise, whose smile at times seems awfully strained these days, can still take a ribbing as well as a licking. MANOHLA DARGIS
A Timely Inheritance and a Predatory Swindler, Tangled in Greed A recurrent image of grackles lined up on a wire as if on the lookout haunts “Two Step,” a creepy indie thriller set in the seedier environs of Austin, Tex. That image reinforces the movie’s acrid portrait of a scuffling working-class milieu where the lines between legitimate employment and petty crime blur. Several of the characters run scams while also holding jobs. In the opening scene, James (Skyy Moore), a sullen young man who has just flunked out of college, pays a surprise visit to his ailing grandmother. Within minutes of his arrival, she has a seizure and dies. James, whose parents are dead, learns that she left him everything: $85,000 and her house. In a daze, he strikes up an acquaintance with his grandmother’s neighbor Dot (Beth Broderick), a salty woman in her 50s and the movie’s moral ground-
James Landry Hébert as Webb and Skyy Moore as James star in “Two Step,” a film directed by Alex R. Johnson. UERYNN PATRICK/TRAVERSE MEDIA
ing wire. Dot has been divorced three times and is being pursued by a married policeman. “A lot of people in this town just think I’m naturally horizontal,” she remarks. “But I am content, and I am complete.” A former professional dancer, Dot’s career was derailed when she broke her leg at 20. Now she teaches a dance class. A second storyline follows the release from prison of Webb (James Landry Hébert), a pred-
atory grifter who returns to the shack he shares with his girlfriend, Amy (Ashley Rae Spillers). Webb’s scam was telephoning seniors, impersonating a grandson and convincing them to wire him money. James’ grandmother was one of his victims. Upon discovering that Amy has spent what money he had hoarded, Webb flies into a rage and resumes his con artistry. He returns to the grandmother’s house where
James is staying, beats up James, ties him to a chair and pries banking information that allows him to begin stealing the inheritance. The possibility of getting his hands on some real money, along with the frustration of having to wait to empty James’ account because of banking regulations, drives Webb into a frenzy of greed and violence, and what little sense of caution he had evaporates. “Two Step,” the feature-length debut of Alex R. Johnson, who wrote, directed and produced it, is a nasty, flawlessly acted little gem that goes deep inside its characters’ psyches. It is a disquieting study of life among Americans who have less and for whom $85,000 is a pot of gold. It suggests a tough, contemporary answer to “The Last Picture Show,” reimagined as neorealist thriller, without a patina of romantic sadness. (NYT)
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Diversity Committee TR’s Diversity Committee is slated to celebrate Women’s Equality Day, Wednesday, Aug. 26. For more information, contact Lt. j.g. Jack Georges or LNC Tiffany Garfield.
FCPOA’s Entertainment Commitee held the final round of the command-wide singing competition, TR Idol, Jul. 26. The eight-week musical elimination event began with 60 Sailors and Marines but IT3 Kailey Gaines won the title and a $1,000 NEX gift card.
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SCPOA invites all second class petty officers to their general body meeting, Aug. 4 at 1900 in Training Classroom 1. SCPOA will host an ESWS RODEO Thursday, Aug. 6 at 1930 on the Aft Mess Decks.
TR held a Leadership And Decisions Interactive Education Symposium, or L.A.D.I.E.S., mentorship event in the ship’s fo’c’sle, Jul. 27. Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician Technical Alyssa Lavers led the event aimed at giving young women access to mentorship in a casual, rank-free setting.
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The Health First Committee in conjunction with the Navy and Marine Corps Health Promotion Committee is hosting their eight-week weight management class, Ship Shape, each Tuesday and Thursday in Ready Room 10. Week five’s topic was the psychology of weight loss. Week six commences Aug. 4 and will focus on ways for Sailors and Marines to create a supportive environment.
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CSADD hosted their staple Karaoke Night, Jul. 30, on the Aft Mess Decks. Sailors and Marines took their shot at singing songs by their favorite artists and bands. CSADD’s monthly topic for August is “Navy Nutrition.”
TR’s Rough Rider Radio airs daily on ILARTS, channel 94, with their “Daily Radio News,” broadcast. Check it out to get all the information you need to know to keep you up-to-date and entertained. Don’t forget the “XO’s Happy Hour Show,” on Fridays at 1300 to get your Intel Update *beep bop boop,* Rock News and a crew favorite, Stupid News.
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ARABIAN GULF (July 28, 2015) – Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Carolina Campos, from Brownsville, Texas, tests fire zone cutouts for the five-inch gun pre-fire aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81). USS Winston S. Churchill is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Josh Petrosino
GULF OF ADEN (July 24, 2015) - Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Philip Sierra, from Lawrence, Kansas, and Fireman Cody Herl, from Sebastian, Florida, prepare to conduct maintenance on a rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB) aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jackie Hart
GULF OF ADEN (July 30, 2015) - Guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) conducts an underway replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jackie Hart
ARABIAN GULF (July 28, 2015) – Sailors prepare the Mark 32 surface vessel torpedo tubes for a dry fire exercise aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Josh Petrosino
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